GinBoy2

Terribly tragic. But when the young boys go to Thailand, they think (as we all did) they're immortal, can do all sorts of stuff that they could never do back home, and unfortunately Thailand teaches you that when the sh*&*t hits the fan, some of those annoying rules back home were made for a reason!

I have a slightly different take on your comments. Misogyny is defined as 'hatred of women' Rather than that, what I think defines a certain section of the farang male population is rather the mentality that women are a commodity to be bought and used, no different to a buying and consuming a bottle of beer!

Well me and Mrs G have been together 20+ years, and like every couple been through our ups and downs. But here we are, and against all the odds still love each other. Seen our kids grow up, and now it's just the two of us. None of us, without the surgeons knife have the body we did 20, 30 years ago, but the older you get the less it seems to matter, or indeed care As for sex, well perhaps we don't go at it like we did 20 years ago, but we still have a great sex life Life has a habit of rushing by and in the wink of an eye one day you're 30, the next day 60+

Insane? Whats more worrying is someone that is 'Bat Sh*$&t Crazy' as MTG can actually get elected. Says something about the Georgia electorate I fear, since MTG never hid her insanity

I agree, sex just for sex sake isn't what they want, so a trip to Pattaya for paid sex doesn't work. I 'think' a lot of them are teenage boys who just never made that transition to manhood successfully. We all go through the trauma of late teenage High School angst. I'm sure many of them are in the geek crowd (I was one), or the simply socially awkward teenage male and simply can't fathom why the girls wanted the football jocks and the bad boys over them. Well back in the day, you just figured it out and became a man. Nowadays they hunker down in an online world of angry teenage boys in mens bodies, seething with rage and that peaceful transition to manhood gets stopped in it's tracks

Well I think many societies have internal racism. I'm hispanic American, so I'm very conscious of how that can pan out! Internally Thailand is horribly racist, or maybe prejudice would be a better a word to use When me and Mrs G were going to get married, we went to a pretty upscale dress shop in BKK to buy a wedding dress. My wife is very clearly Lao, albeit US raised and college educated. The ignorant shop girl, who probably was at best High School educated demanded to see my wife's hands, to check that she wasn't a 'farmer' before she would serve her! I lost it, she lost it, needless to say we didn't buy anything from them! What was the story a few years back, when Bangkok guy posted a social media post at Songkran saying the air in Bangkok smelled better now all the Lao had gone back to Issan. Yep they have racism in spades. So for whitey folks, you get it easy

We used Asian Tigers to ship our stuff to the US. Great service they came to our home, packed very efficiently everything we were taking, did all the customs paperwork, 8 weeks later delivered to our house in the US, no damage. This is the contact we had, who knows if he's still there, but it's a start

Well cos if you want something more than quick sex, relationships take some work. These kids seem to think that if a woman doesn't fall into their arms, and bed, and I'm not talking some bar girl for money thing, that it's the woman's fault for rejection. 'Work' means many things; dinner dates, a movie, and maybe some flattery etc etc These kids don't wanna hear that

This whole Incel 'thing' is ridiculous. Some men have always had problems with finding a sexual partner, be it through looks, personality or whatever. But you got to prepared to put in the effort. A lot of this current generation are just simply lazy, and it's so much easier to throw up your hands and declare 'I'm an Incel' retreat to a keyboard in Mom and Dads basement and fume. Figure out why women don't seem attracted to you, then man up and go do the work!

I would agree with that. As a very young engineer working for Rockwell I had the misfortune to see one crash. We were staging through Akrotiri. The RAF was on deployment during gunnery practice, 56 sqn I think. The Canberra towing the drone, #2 engine exploded on takeoff rolled and crashed both pilots killed. Something I will never forget

Many of you know I'm a total Anglophile and a total aviation geek. This picture makes me cry. A fantastic aviation industry which produced some of the worlds best aircraft, reduced to making 'bits' of aircraft

Does any man ever stop jerking off? I think not, and every woman on the planet knows that. Oh and btw married or not all men watch porn!

We've come back in through multiple ports of entry; DEN, DFW, ORD, SFO, but by far the worst was ORD it took us 3 hours to get through immigration, unbelievably bad, The immigration officer even said "Welcome Home". I wanted to punch him

I'd never thought about before, but you're right. Fresh meat paraded for all to see. It's quite sweet really lol

I would agree Thailand is a great place for loners. I'm an only child, rare thing for our generation, but you learn to be very self sufficient. I'm pretty social, i can speak Thai, Lao and Mandarin fluently, so I have no problems communication wise. But I've never 'needed' friends, I can take or leave people. My wife, total opposite she needs to feel that bond, maybe a bit of being female or just personality

Ugh, I remember when Mrs G went back to Thailand for a month last year, I had a frantic day of cleaning before her return. Of course it wasn't good enough, but it me out of Capital Crime territory.....just!

I don't think I ever really thought about ethnicity. My first wife was American/Jamaican, so maybe my prediction is just for dusky maidans wherever they hail from. We met when we were working together in Singapore, I didn't even know she was Thai until after we'd done the dirty deed! 20+ odd years later here we are

I think it's really the cities versus rural Thailand. In the end the youngsters will always push the envelope, as the young always should

Yeoh as Empress Georgio in Star Trek Discovery. Ultimate sexy badass

I showed my wife this, and she also knew the story. In 20+ years together we never talked about this, so definitely made for some dinner table discussion

None of us deserve medals for just living up to our responsibilities, that just being an adult! Kids need their parents, Mom and Dad. If you ain't up to that I'd suggest looking up condom in the dictionary

My wifes grandmother, 94 when she died, had no problem sitting outside topless. Not I would have to say the most appealing sight, but at 94 who gives a sh**t what folks think

Well i don't think @Yellowtail was 'virtue signaling' But five kids at 32, probably a couple of baby mommas. Now I have three children and I don't think I would ever have left my small kids regardless of my marital status travel half way across the world to 'follow my dreams' and end up on a moped at zero dark thirty. There really is a thing about being a grown up and having responsibilities!

Well the chances are 'its a <deleted> shoot' I think you have going in your favor is that you're not American. The CO's worry about two things. A single Thai woman arrived alone on a tourist visa and disappears into the Thai Diaspora A Thai woman with an American husband/bf who then apply for an adjustment of status to bypass normal immigration process. So you got some stuff going in your favor, but don't get giddy until that visa is stamped in her passprt

As others have said, maybe seeking some professional therapy to work out the issues you have in your own upbringing might help you figure out where you are going in your adult relationships. Life's tough, but don't please think that talking to random folks online is going to help you sort it out. The fact that this is a Thai forum and many of us are in farang/thai relationships gives us no better insight into your issues than Joe Blow on the street